Patients with the Carney complex suffer from cardiovascular symptoms from hormonal disorders and myxomas. The disease is a mutation-related hereditary disease. Treatment is symptomatic supportive and primarily includes the surgical removal or monitoring of myxomas and other tumors. What is a Carney Complex? So-called myxomas are benign tumors made of unformed connective tissue and slimy […]
When beryllium disease is a poisoning of the human body with the chemical element beryllium. The substance belongs to the metals and leads to acute or chronic berylliasis in certain groups of people. Substances containing beryllium can also trigger the disease. Berylliosis is one of the so-called dust pneumonia (medical term malignant pneumoconiosis). What is […]
Various forms of menstrual cycle disorders, such as heavy or weak menstruation, can occur in every woman in all walks of life, without a pathological background. However, if the period does not occur over a longer period of time, the gynecologist speaks of amenorrhea. The causes are varied, the therapy is based on the cause […]
In autoimmune hepatitis is a rare disease of the liver. In the further course of the disease, the organism develops antibodies that damage its own liver. If left untreated, the patient can die. What is autoimmune hepatitis? Abbreviated as AIH by abbreviationfinder, autoimmune hepatitis is not caused by viruses. Instead, it comes to a dysregulation, […]
The superior mesenteric artery syndrome is a compression syndrome that leads to upper abdominal pain, difficult food intake and nausea and even vomiting. Patients often suffer from malnutrition, which those around them often mistake for the consequences of an eating disorder. Treatment is mostly invasive and consists of decompression that allows normal food intake again. […]
The Aicardi-Goutières syndrome is an extremely rare autosomal recessive gene mutation that triggers a genetically heterogeneous developmental disorder in the brains of some three-month-old infants and in addition severe motor impairment with spasticity and epilepsy associated. For severe phenotypes, a maximum life expectancy of ten years is a guideline, although milder phenotypes with RNASEH2B mutations […]
The sudden occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases is reflected in various abnormalities that can be used for diagnostic purposes. An acute abdomen is usually an indication that urgent medical attention is needed. What is an Acute Abdomen? The acute abdomen is about painful complaints that primarily occur in the area of the abdomen. The term acute […]
What is shift-left testing? Two ideals collide in software development: quality and speed of development. If you work too fast, you risk making mistakes. Anyone who pays attention to quality takes too long. Shift Left Testing is a tool to defuse the collision. Software development traditionally follows the so-called waterfall model. The following phases are […]
What is penetration testing? Penetration testing is a process that simulates cyber attacks on one’s own system. This controlled attack gives developers, IT operations and security departments an insight into system security. Penetration testing (or pentesting or pen testing for short) is a process that simulates a cyber attack against one’s own system. The aim […]
Some of the GMAT test questions are really difficult Also, time can be your worst enemy It’s harder to answer questions if you know you have less than 2 minutes to answer each one: you rush, you don’t do a good review, you make miscalculations, and you don’t retain much information from your readings Therefore, […]